Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 4
When you hear such a word, ask: what really happened, and to whom?
Who acts: you · What happens: hear, ask, happen · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 word | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 happened | advmod |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whom | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whom | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 happened | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- none
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | such word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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